Corcovado National Park and its surroundings, Costa Rica
Our second day in Costa Rica found us in front of the rough coast draped in lush, dense and almost unexplored greenery of the forest in the San Pedrillo ranger station within the Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula. We walked on different trails, towards a waterfall, on a long trail, or on a trail parallel to the beach; all of us practicing our new skill of listening and smelling the forest, more than just looking. If you have ever been to this part of the world, you know very well that the best way to find anything in the tropical forests is by paying attention to movement, noise, and even by scent, paying attention to more than only one sense.
Rewarded with howler monkeys, scarlet macaws, vine snakes, strangler figs, garlic trees, a cool waterhole, and exercise, to deserve the superb picnic lunch our galley treated us with, we rested on a small cove called Punta Caletas. Some of us went back to the ship, while the few that were fast enough to get one of the hammocks rested at the site; others went to the beach several meters away from the picnic area to body surf or simply cooling off. A bit later, some brave and energetic bunch joined the naturalist on more hikes.
Back on board, the vessel our officers indulged us with cruising the area in search of marine wildlife, we found a female humpback whale with a calf one fourth of its mother’s size. Later for our evening recap, among leaf-cutter ants, moray eels, and golden orbed spiders, we headed down to dinner and to bed, in preparation for tomorrow, our last day of the trip.
Our second day in Costa Rica found us in front of the rough coast draped in lush, dense and almost unexplored greenery of the forest in the San Pedrillo ranger station within the Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula. We walked on different trails, towards a waterfall, on a long trail, or on a trail parallel to the beach; all of us practicing our new skill of listening and smelling the forest, more than just looking. If you have ever been to this part of the world, you know very well that the best way to find anything in the tropical forests is by paying attention to movement, noise, and even by scent, paying attention to more than only one sense.
Rewarded with howler monkeys, scarlet macaws, vine snakes, strangler figs, garlic trees, a cool waterhole, and exercise, to deserve the superb picnic lunch our galley treated us with, we rested on a small cove called Punta Caletas. Some of us went back to the ship, while the few that were fast enough to get one of the hammocks rested at the site; others went to the beach several meters away from the picnic area to body surf or simply cooling off. A bit later, some brave and energetic bunch joined the naturalist on more hikes.
Back on board, the vessel our officers indulged us with cruising the area in search of marine wildlife, we found a female humpback whale with a calf one fourth of its mother’s size. Later for our evening recap, among leaf-cutter ants, moray eels, and golden orbed spiders, we headed down to dinner and to bed, in preparation for tomorrow, our last day of the trip.
